Phanteks PH-F140MP for front intake?

silk186 · 9 Jun 2019 at 16:29

I picked up a Phanteks Evolv ITX yesterday that is missing its intake fan.
Is the Phanteks PH-F140MP any good? The two pack is a decent price but I didn't find many reviews for them.

silk186 · 9 Jun 2019 at 17:14

Thanks for the info. I'm not familiar with Phanteks fans.
Understandably, not many sites want to cover fans and models get updated without a name change.

silk186 · 9 Jun 2019 at 17:15

Unseul said:
Fantastic fans for price. Really good pressure rating for overcoming resistance.

Thanks, I will order a pair.

silk186 · 9 Jun 2019 at 17:29

doyll said:
Indeed, 2-pack of PH-F140MP are what I would use. I would mount them both in front and block off any holes on front panel they are mount on so none the air they are pushing into case can leak back in front of fans. I would also remove all PCie back slot covers to increase rear vent area and thus improve airflow from front to back around GPU.

It's an mITX case so no need to cover rear slots. I never thought about covering up the front, that's a good suggestion.

silk186 · 9 Jun 2019 at 18:07

doyll said:
Not cover PCIe slots, remove the slot cover so there is more rear vent area to let air flow from front over PCIe area of motherboard and out the back.
Only cover openings not covered by front intake fans. That way all the air they are pushing into case has to flow back / up and out of case. But for best cooling we want all the front intake air flowning back with approx half to CPU cooler and half to GPU cooler, then on back and out of case. Opening the PCIe case back slots gives us about as much addional rear vent as a front intake fan needs.

That makes sense, thanks for explaining.